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Thursday, 8 October 2015

If It Quacks Like A Duck

Earlier this
year, for better or worse, the electorate put the Conservative Party into
government with David Cameron as Prime Minister. Ordinary people, like myself, assumed that
this was the deal.

But within
weeks of swearing the oath, appointing a Cabinet and making key decisions,
suddenly, having taken on the job Cameron announces that he is not going to see
it out.

Rather like
the plumber who removes the toilet seat but then fails to return after lunch to
install the new one but says he has been called away to do another job.

In the
Guardian today, Simon Jenkins says this is the worst mistake he has made, there
are currently plenty of choices. I would
go further and say it is the worst mistake any political leader can make and
agree with him that we are now landed with an administration where the major
objective for those at the top is to position themselves for the changeover.

Look around
the world and imagine the implications of any of the major leaders elected for
a term and then saying, well, it's very hard work so I will be bunking off
early to chillax on my private wealth and accrued earnings and payoff.

So we have a
lame duck Prime Minister with a lame excuse for taking early retirement at a
time when the UK is facing serious challenges across almost the whole field of
its activity. He is presiding over a
Cabinet, many of whom will be candidates to succeed him.

Additionally,
and this is very serious, we are stuck with George Osborne as a Chancellor that
Cameron cannot move or get rid of. George
in the meantime is cooking the books to make sure he will be top of the
candidate list cum 2018.

Governments of
the past that had duff Chancellors they were stuck with all ended badly.